In a 2018 story for the Financial Times, Tom Wilson reports Somaliland's minister for environment and rural development, Shukri Ismail Bandare, as saying, "You can touch it [climate change] in Somaliland - it is real, it is here." “We used to have droughts before, we used to name the droughts, but they would be 10 or 15 years apart,” she says. “Now it is so frequent that people cannot cope with it.” Since 2015, Somaliland has suffered intensified droughts that have killed 70% of its livestock. Since its 3.5m people depend on livestock farming, this means that they will need food assistance. The droughts are caused by a rise in temperature in the Indian Ocean, which has caused the wind to flow eastwards instead of westwards. Normally, the wind brings moist air and rain inland to east Africa. About 13m people are suffering from food shortages across the region. The story did not mention that Somalia's population has also tripled since 1970, from 3.6 million to 9.3 million. It has a fertility rate of 6.4 childen per woman. Even accounting for a high infant mortality rate of 10 percent, this means that Somalia will be home to 33 million people by 2050 if the rate doesn't change.